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August 11, 2003

You notice that no one on the left actually states, “We were wrong to go into Iraq.”

All they say is, “The reason Bush gave for going to Iraq was a lie.” They don’t say we were wrong to do it. How could they dare to say it was wrong to depose the most brutal mass-murdering dictator of modern times? How could they even pretend that the world isn’t safer for the U.S. without him?

Of course they can’t, and they don’t.

Check out the recent speech by Al Gore in this light. (By the way, I was searching Google for the text of the speech. It was already hard to find. Know who had it? Al Jazeerah. That’s where the link goes to.)

Here’s how Gore introduced the topic of Iraq (emphasis added):

...you might assume that my purpose today is to revisit the manner in which we were led into war. To some extent, that will be the case – but only as part of a larger theme that I feel should now be explored on an urgent basis. ...The way we went to war in Iraq illustrates this larger problem.

Notice that he doesn’t dare say the war itself was wrong? He’s just going to criticize the way we went to war. He’s ‘deeply troubled’ about that.

Read the rest of the speech. Did Gore say we were wrong to free the Iraqi people? Did he say the war didn’t serve U.S. interests? Did he say the world isn’t safer for the U.S. with Hussein out of power? No.

Instead he trotted out a few easily-debunked canards and then went on to other, “larger” subjects.

The Left knows the liberation of Iraq was a good thing—and they won’t admit it.